BSD Magazine (April 2010): Hosting BSD

The BSD Magazine editors have come out with a new issue of this free PDF magazine: Hosting BSD

The Table of Contents is as follows:

Modern FreeBSD Install

All these years sysinstall(8) was helping us to install FreeBSD with most needed options.

X11 without dbus/hald and with three kings

FreeBSD Handbook suggests (check section 5.4.2 Configuring X11), that running sysutils/hal (hald) and devel/dbus daemons is mandatory to have working x11/xorg … nothing further from the truth.

Converting a FreeBSD Port Using PBI Builder

This is an excerpt from the “Becoming a Developer” chapter of the recently released book, The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD.

BSD File Sharing – Part 2. SAMBA

Last time I wrote about NFS on different BSD’s. This time I am going to dedicate this article of the series to SAMBA.

Running VirtualBox OSE with VNC under FreeBSD 8.0

VirtualBox is a type 2 hypervisor that sits directly on top of the host-server OS and is suitable for server, desktop and embedded applications. It will run most OS’s as guest with few exceptions, and like Vmware * there are many pre-built VM’s available.